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The Ants
Ants are small individuals but are great in groups. Ants first attracted the

of
software engineers in the early 1990s. A single ant cannot do much on its own, but a group of ants as a whole can

difficult problems. That interested people like Marco Dorigo, who is one of the founders of a field known

group intelligence.
Ants are good at

the shortest possible route between a food source (来源)and their nest. This reminds us of a classic computational (计算的) travelling-salesman problem. Given a list of cities and their location apart, the salesman must find the

route needed to visit each city once. As the number of cities

the problem gets much more.
Ants solve their own problem by using chemical signals called pheromones (信息素). When an ant

food, she takes it back to the nest, leaving behind a pheromone trail that will attract others. The more ants that follow the trail, the

it becomes. However,the pheromones evaporate (挥发)

,so once all the food has been collected, the trail soon goes cold. This rapid evaporation means long trails are less important than short ones, all else being equal. Pheromones thus turn the

intelligence of the individual ants into something more powerful.